Visualise WANN topologies

[mforcexvi]

Hi,

This is really fascinating work that you have done here! Thank you for sharing your code.

May I know where I can find the code to visualise the WANN topologies in the same way that you have done in your paper?

I thought it might be in the WANNTool folder but it seems like that code is for viewing the agent in action in the environment rather than viewing the network topology.

Thanks!

[agaier]

Thanks for the kind words!

The images are more or less 'by hand'. The graphs were produced from the weight matrices with MATLAB's graph plot function, and then further cleaned up with Adobe Illustrator. I looked for quite some time for an open source DAG plotting library (and tried my hand at creating scripts), but couldn't find anything that looked as clean.

[mforcexvi]

Thanks for replying so quickly! They are very nice visualisations!

[MANXIU]

I found a way to visualise the network topology,you could try to using graphviz

[mforcexvi]

Oh that's great! Would you be able to share your code?

[MANXIU]

I haven't encapsulate, I just realized the function

[joaogui1]

I haven't encapsulate, I just realized the function

@MANXIU can you share what you coded please?
@agaier what are the scripts in the vis directory exactly? I'm trying to use them, but I'm encountering many errors

[agaier]

hey @joaogui1, the scripts in the vis directory were used to visualize topologies -- but I was not satisfied with the result and so took another route (see above). I'm not sure if they still work...in a notebook they would take a square weight matrix (for the connections) and a task name (e.g. swingup) to know how many inputs and outputs are used.

[joaogui1]

Oh, got it. Thanks! I will keep messing with them until I get something that does what I need

[eforbes24]

Hey all! Just wondering if anyone has any scripts available for easily visualizing the topologies, I plan on checking out graphviz and trying out MATLAB but I'm still generally new to coding and was hoping to streamline the process. Thanks!